It looked to me though, those new guys played well in there.
Our Big 3 didn't.
We didn't lose because of our interior defense in that 4th quarter....they were dropping 3's.
The interior defense tonight was brutal. Miami went to the hoop almost uncontested most of the night. Not sure how this team is going to get a real center for next year.
Interior defense starts at the perimeter and at the point of attack.
If Shaq or Perk were healthy and here...they would be last line of defense in the paint.
Guess who still gets the calls?
Not us.
We had more control over other aspects of the game. Turnovers are the biggest reason we lost this series.
but in order to be aggressive at the point of attack you need to know that you have guys behind you that will be in position. That just was not the case, so our wings needed to lay off more than they should....which led to more open threes...
CHI plays the same way...
I felt like we played too close to the perimeter guys...we didn't give them enough room.
When you play too close it's easier for them to blow right by you.
Game 1 was really the only game we let them have open 3's.
They shot 9-19 in that game from 3.
Coming into tonight's game the Heat were shooting 33.8% from 3 land.
Tonight they shot 7-19 (36.8%).
2 of those Lebron 3's weren't exactly open....and are kind of the shots you want Lebron to take, not have him go to the hoop for easy scores or FT's.
Lebron was 5-7 tonight from deep.
Just tip your hat...
...or maybe try and play careful basketball on offense and not turn the ball over, so we can get a shot at least?
We were shooting 53-56% for much of the game.
Why turn the ball over with lazy or long touchdown passes?
